Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least 3,000,000 more are bought each year, some twothirds through the mails?"as easily," in Lyndon Johnson's words, "as baskets of fruit or cartons of cigarettes." Said Maryland's Democratic Senator Joseph Tydings last week in an appeal for more effective legislation to curb this traffic: "It is just tragic that in all of Western civilization the U.S. is the one country with an insane gun policy...
...mail-order sale of all guns, but as soon as the N.R.A. started moving, Congress stopped. Its paralysis persisted after last April's slaying of Martin Luther King. Robert Kennedy's murder in Los Angeles brought an appeal from the President for an end to the "insane traffic" in guns, but Congress responded by completing action on a measure so toothless?it provides for little more than a ban on mail-order handguns?as to please even the N.R.A. Johnson scorned it as "watered-down" and "halfway," dropped hints that he might veto the entire crime bill of which...
...airports, is spending $425 million to expand Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark airports and is meanwhile seeking a site for one more all-new superport. Boston also needs another airfield, whose cost will be over and above the $225 million now allotted to expand Logan International. Pittsburgh, with traffic up 25% in one year, has earmarked $11,800,000 for immediate expansion. Altogether, U.S. airports will spend at least $4.9 billion in the next ten years, but even that may not be enough. Says the New York Port Authority's Aviation Director John R. Wiley: "What we have...
...since downtown passengers are now only a fraction of the total. The remainder reach the airport from the suburbs or surrounding towns, and the only realistic way to service them is to build still more expressways wide enough to avoid the slowdowns that cause passengers to be caught in traffic jams when their airplanes are taking...
...boom is the result of a three-year-old U.S. Canadian trade agreement that, by eliminating all tariffs on cars shipped across the border, has created a vast if little-noticed common market now accounting for fully one-fifth of the two countries' $14 billion in annual trade. Traffic within that market runs both ways-the U.S. last year imported 318,000 cars from Canada, exported 239,000 to its neighbor in return...